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Displacing Injustice, Embracing Community: Lessons from Local New Economy Organizing (Video)

Date: 17 Oct 2014 | posted in: Retail | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

placeholderFrom Richmond, CA to Jackson, MI, people are organizing to build local power and are seeing major victories that could point the way forward to a new economy. This panel, held on October 17, 2014, as part of New Economy Week, raises the question: “How can we support neighborhoods, cities, towns, and regions as the fertile ground for the kind of economy we need?”

Panelists:
Aaron Tanaka, Center For Economic Democracy / NEC Board
Stacy Mitchell, Institute for Local Self-Reliance
Marnie Thompson, Fund for Democratic Communities

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Stacy Mitchell is co-director of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance and directs its Independent Business Initiative, which produces research and designs policy to counter concentrated corporate power and strengthen local economies.